But it is important to honestly assess your affair and think about whether this relationship could stand this kind of stress.

Can the two of you exist in a relatively socially isolated situation for some time?

Revisited”) But a statistic is just that, and doesn’t tell you anything about your own individual situation.

Feeling torn between two lovers can be an agonizing experience.

They're free of the rose-colored glasses empaths falling in "love" often wear.The closest analog to a sociopath's love is probably the love of a child: intense, accepting, selfish.And finally, like a child, the sociopath will be extremely loyal.If you have the kind of primary relationship where you initially experienced a significant amount of time where you were mutually in love and satisfied with the relationship and then grew apart because of life stresses or conflict and you entered the affair to experience being in love again, this does not bode well for the long term success of the affair relationship.That is because almost all relationships follow a predictable course of developmental stages, all at some point going through a period of disillusionment.Another reason why many affair relationships fail is that it is difficult to deeply trust someone who has started the relationship by being unfaithful and deceitful with someone else.